Algiers is a city on the seacoast; Ibn Battuta passed through it on his way from the Maghrib to the Mashriq. Ibn Khaldun says Bulukin ibn Ziri the Sanhaji founded it on his father's command; in the sixteenth century it became the capital of naval jihad in North Africa under the Barbarossa brothers and then joined the Ottoman state.
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Algiers
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Algiers is a city on the seacoast, which Ibn Battuta passed through on his way from the Maghrib to the Mashriq. In Ibn Khaldun's account Bulukin ibn Ziri ibn Manad al-Sanhaji laid it out on his father's command in his days — the city named for Banu Mazghanna — in the era of the Ubaydis at Kairouan. In the sixteenth century it was the capital of naval jihad in North Africa: the brothers Aruj and Khayr al-Din Barbarossa entered and ruled it, and from it Khayr al-Din joined the Ottoman state after strengthening its fortifications.
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